Emeka Ojukwu

Emeka Ojukwu (1933 - 2011)
was the only president of the short lived Republic of Biafra.

“The Biafran struggle is, on another plane, a resistance
to the Arab-Muslim expansionism which has menaced and ravaged the African
continent for twelve centuries. As early as the first quarter of the seventh
century, the Arabs, a people from the Near-East, evolved Islam not just as a
religion but as a cover for their insatiable territorial ambitions. By the
tenth century they had overrun and occupied, among other places, Egypt and
North Africa. Had they stopped there, we would not today be faced with the
wicked and unholy collusion we are fighting against. On the contrary, they cast
their hungry and envious eyes across the Sahara on to the land of the Negroes.

“Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic
contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was
established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian
people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea.
Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped
to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then
the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto tried, by political and economic
blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to
Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans on dispersion would then carry Islam to
Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area. The
crises which agitated the so-called independent Nigeria from 1962 gave these
aggressive proselytisers the chance to try converting us by force.

“It is now evident why the fanatic Arab-Muslim states
like Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan have come out openly and massively to support
and aid Nigeria in her present war of genocide against us. These states see
militant Arabism as a powerful instrument for attaining power in the world.

“Biafra is one of the few African states untainted by
Islam. Therefore, to militant Arabism, Biafra is a stumbling block to their
plan for controlling the whole continent. This control is fast becoming
manifest in the Organisation of African Unity. On the question of the Middle
East, the Sudanese crisis, in the war between Nigeria and Biafra, militant
Arabism has succeeded in imposing its point of view through blackmail and
bluster. It has threatened African leaders and governments with inciting their
Muslim minorities to rebellion if the governments adopted an independent line
on these questions. In this way an O.A.U that has not felt itself able to
discuss the genocide in the Sudan and Biafra, an O.A.U. that has again and
again advertised its ineptitude as a peace-maker, has rushed into open
condemnation of Israel over the Middle East dispute. Indeed in recent times, by
its performance, the O.A.U. might well be an Organisation of Arab Unity.[51]”

AND NOW, for illustrative quotes on Islam from the son and
grandson of Kenyan born Muslims, a world class and credentialed historian, and
a man notable for his robust and unimpeachable honesty and integrity, Imam
Barack Hussein Obama, see:

#8 “These rituals remind us of
the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice,
progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”

#9 “America and Islam are not
exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share
common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all
human beings.”#10“I made clear
that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”

#11 “Islam is not part of the
problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting
peace.”

#12 “So I have known Islam on
three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”

#13 “In ancient times and in our
times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and
education.”

#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O
mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into
nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”

#17 “I look forward to hosting
an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week,
and wish you a blessed month.”

#18 “We’ve seen those results in
generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay
the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some
of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”#19 “That experience guides my
conviction that partnership between America and Islammust be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my
responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative
stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

#20“I also know
that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”

OR, beside Imam Obama’s
insights above, a few Quranic verses that have insired many Islamo-fascists.

Qur'an 3:32—Say:
Obey Allah and the Apostle; but if they turn back, then surely Allah does not
love the unbelievers.

Qur'an 48:29—Muhammad
is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are severe against
disbelievers, and merciful among themselves. You see them bowing and falling
down prostrate (in prayer), seeking Bounty from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure.
The mark of them (i.e. of their Faith) is on their faces (foreheads) from the
traces of (their) prostration (during prayers). This is their description in
the Taurat (Torah). But their description in the Injeel (Gospel) is like a
(sown) seed which sends forth its shoot, then makes it strong, it then becomes thick,
and it stands straight on its stem, delighting the sowers that He may enrage
the disbelievers with them. Allah has promised those among them who believe
(i.e. all those who follow Islamic Monotheism, the religion of Prophet Muhammad
SAW till the Day of Resurrection) and do righteous good deeds, forgiveness and
a mighty reward (i.e. Paradise).

Qur'an 4:24—Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those
(captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess. Thus hath Allah ordained
(Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided
ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property—desiring chastity, not
lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at
least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree mutually (to
vary it), there is no blame on you, and Allah is All-knowing, All-wise.

Qur'an 5:33—The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His
apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should
be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on
opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for
them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous
chastisement.

Qur'an 9:5—Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters
wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare
for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the
poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Qur'an 9:29—Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day
[notice it says "fight those who do not believe," not "fight
people who are attacking you"], nor hold that forbidden which hath been
forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth,
from among the People of the Book [the people of the book are Jews and
Christians], until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel
themselves subdued.

Qur'an 9:73—O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the
hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the
destination.

Qur'an 9:111—Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and
their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in Allah's
way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding on Him in the
Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran; and who is more faithful to his covenant
than Allah? Rejoice therefore in the pledge which you have made; and that is
the mighty achievement.

Qur'an 47:35—Be not weary and fainthearted, crying for peace, when ye
should be uppermost: for Allah is with you, and will never put you in loss for
your (good) deeds.

Qur'an 2:106—Whatever
communications We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better than
it or like it. Do you not know that Allah has power over all things?

From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for
Good Friday:

O MERCIFUL God,
who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor wouldest the
death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live; Have mercy
upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take from them all
ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word; and so fetch them home,
blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the
true Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our
Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world
without end. Amen.

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About Me

Retired. Reformed and Presbyterian by background, but dedicated to the Anglican Prayerbook with degrees from Presbyterian and Episcopal seminaries. Informed by both traditions. Not giving up the 1662 BCP for the Presbyterians and not giving up the Westminster Standards for the Anglicans.